The 10 best stephen king audiobooks, a ranking book riot. I suggest reading these collections in chronological order to allow you to see the changes in stephens writing over the years. Looking back over more than 40 years worth of his work. After all, when it comes to king, most people think of the shining, carrie, cujo, pet sematary, children of the corn, etc. I know this list is going to be contentious amongst fellow fans, and i welcome comments and criticism with open arms. If you liked misery, youre probably going to like finders keepers. This is a complete list of books published by stephen king. Here are 11 books that scared the unshakable stephen king, and so are pretty much.
The best stephen king audiobooks ranked best thrillers. The following is a complete list of books published by stephen king, an american author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. Here are 50 mustread books recommended by stephen king over the years, and if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list, ive made a few of my own book suggestions for the king. The characters are sad and creepy, but extremely loveable. Stephen king is an american author of horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy novels. I have no doubt ill be able to convince you to read the works of this great king of horror, or at the very least rent the movies. Im also interested in hearing your thoughts on some of his newer creepy books verses the classics i mentioned above. And, by all means, if theres a king book that somehow scared you even more than these did, tell us about it in the comments. So forget what youve seen in the movieswhether youre new to stephen kings oeuvre, or youre working on indoctrinating a friend, reading the following 10 books is nonnegotiable. To help you out, weve put together this list of the best stephen kings books, ranked from. A complete ranking of every movie, tv series, or episode involving stephen king. With over 30 movies, television series or mini series made from his incredible writings so far, we can assume that there will be many more to come. Stephen king first published this and four other books under the pseudonym richard bachman.
His books have sold more than 350 million copies, 1 and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books. Its difficult to point to a stephen king book that is outright bad, but across 50 novels, some are more successful than othersso we ranked them all. With over 60 novels published, there are no shortage of great titles to choose from. Not only is this the worst stephen king book that i own, its the worst by a large margin. Stephen king word count 112263 274,672 bag of bones 203,3 black house 252,270 blockade billy 15,917 carrie 60,718 cell 121,931 christine 193,602 cujo 121,150 cycle of the werewolf 15,955 desperation. Pet sematary by stephen king, wizard and glass by stephen king, the stand by stephen king, the gunslinger by stephen king, the.
Aug 24, 2015 you could make an entire reading list based on stephen king recommendations, and be set for a long time. One of the masters of american horror fiction, author stephen king has a oeuvre of more than 88 books which includes some of the most genredefining, bestselling titles in all of literature. Stephen king is one of the most prolific authors alive, known for writing horror, fantasy, and psychological thrillers. Sep 03, 2012 spoilers i think its important to realize that writers can and do write characters and even books that are diametrically opposed to their personal views. Top 10 stephen king movies based on the popular books. King talked to time about his top 10 biggest books, reflecting on the circumstances under which they were written and the critical reception that they received. Stephanie mccann has been working for them as an intern.
Richard bachman actually stephen king s son goes by the name joe hill. I will explain for those that dont know what that means. Stephen king is one of the most prolific authors in the world, with more than 50 books in print, and more coming out every year. Undoubtedly one of the most prolific and quite possibly one of the greatest writers of our generation, stephen king s books offer much more variety than the horror stories for which he became famous. Sep 17, 2019 im making it my personal mission to listen to every stephen king novel published so far this century, which given kings propensity for very long books, is a far bigger job than you might imagine. Its expansive in scope and dabbles in quintessential stephen king ephemera, while also blending fantasy and horror in a weirdly wonderful way something king has continued to do during his tenure as. From carrie to doctor sleep, this is a comprehensive list. Without further ado, heres my list of the best stephen king audiobooks published in this century. The one movie king ever directed, and well, you know, stephen king is a wonderful writer who should probably stick with writing.
Stephen kings best books, ranked by readers the delite. Feb 18, 2016 a beginners guide to stephen king books. Kings only true highfantasy novel with the novel length the wind through the keyhole the story within the. Without further ado, i give you the top 5 best stephen king books to date. On this list put the top stephen king books score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. The art by glenn chadbourne is good, but the poem the book is built around is mediocre at best, and as far as im concerned the book exists only to milk a few dollars out of hardcore king fans. That said, here are king s 10 most underrated movies. With such an expansive catalogue of books, king has too many to simply choose blindly, so lets get into the top 10 stephen king audiobooks, in particular order. Blog posted on wednesday, apr 03 stephen king short stories did you know that there are over stephen king short stories in existence. In celebration of sleepless nights, here are some of the freakiest, scariest stephen king books. Stephen king is a literary icon, a status hes achieved by a defining a genre. King has written several critically acclaimed and commercially successful horror, supernatural, suspense and fantas. Jan 12, 2018 stephen king is a literary icon, a status hes achieved by a defining a genre. He is bestknown for such published works as carrie, the shining and misery all of which have been adapted into successful films.
As king is one of americas best and foremost short story writers, this is a matter that bears rectifyingafter all, there are more than 100 stories spread across his 10 collections, and thats a considerable body of work. All 44 stephen king movies, ranked worst to best photos. After that its a little harder to be objective as ive found his short story collections to be really incredible and woukd probably rank them higher than the other sk novels ive read. Does stephen kings insomnia present an antiabortion message. It won the bram stoker award for best novel in 1998, and the british fantasy award for best novel in 1999. Stephen king teams up with longtime friend and awardwinning author richard chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the mysterious town of castle rock. I try to devour anything he writes, and most of the time, i am not left disappointed. Ranking every stephen king novel, from worst to first. Originally published as a bachman book, this was actually the first full length novel that king ever finished.
His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. A ranking of the greatest novels, short stories, movies, and other creations of the worlds most popular writer spignesi, stephen j. Stephen kings 10 most underrated movies screenrant. The best stephen king books, ranked in order kindle edition. List of books stephen king recommends show list info. A truly underrated novel, and one of the few fulllength novels king wrote that has absolutely zero supernatural or horror ingredients. Thats why we thought itd be interesting to flirt with stephen king. The book reuses many basic plot elements of daphne du mauriers rebecca, which is. Even today, he averages two books per year many question the quality of his most recent work which i will address in this article. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the best stephen king books, ranked in order. Stephen king bibliography the following is a complete list of books published by stephen king, an american author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.
Vince teague and dave bowie are the sole operators of the weekly islander, a small maine newspaper. After his work began to take off, stephen king wrote under a pseudonym, richard bachman, these books were less supernatural horror and more suspense thrillers. Stephen king s son also writes books but he does not go by his regular name he writes under a different name and i forget what it is. It may have been just king s fourth full length book, but over the past four decades, the stand has cemented itself as one of his best. I have read so many books from stephen king but this is my favorite. One of the longest king books, needful things is epic, sad, dark, scary, smart, and simply fun read. And we start with one of the best, about a psychic teenage girl whom youve probably heard a lot about. From an oeuvre of almost 100 books, here are the best stephen king books, ranked. The pentacle stephen king audio book part 1 unpublished. Stephen king books list of books by author stephen king. Stephen king has recommended hundreds of books either in interviews, books or on twitter. Stephen king books, ranked from worst to best vulture. He is my favorite writer, so obviously i felt compelled to summarize every one of his books using the character limits of twitter. List of books stephen king recommends list challenges.
As the author of more than 60 globally bestselling books, the mind behind 50 of the scariest scary movies, and both a national medal of honor and national book foundation medal recipient, its an undisputed fact that stephen king is a master of horror fiction. Salems lot was more than twice the length of his debut novel and has. He has also had a large number of his books adapted to film. Its the 40th anniversary of the publication of carrie, so new york magazine has compiled a complete list of the maine mans works including the bachman books, collaborations, collections and nonfiction, ranked from worst to best. The stand by stephen king, it by stephen king, the shining by stephen king, the gunslinger by stephen king, misery by stephen. The best stephen king novels 12 mustread stephen king books. The plot centers on a pandemic of a weaponized strain of influenza that kills almost the entire world population. Being almost 70 years old, stephen king s been officially published for 50 of them, and many of his books were published multiple times throughout the years. The best stephen king books, ranked in order kindle edition by bain, david. When stephanie asks if theyve ever come across a real unexplained mystery in the fifty years theyd been publishing the paper, they tell her the story of the colorado kid. In other words, not only has stephen king written some genius novels and short stories, novellas, essays, and works of criticism, but hes written a lot of them51 novels. King s books and short stories quickly became hit movies, many of them celebrated in.
Every stephen king novel summarized in 140 characters or less. Books by stephen king authors like stephen king what. The 10 best stephen king books your picks for the horror masters scariest, most suspenseful pageturners, from it to the dead zone. Until the stand is made public, lets assess some of king s most unheralded cinematic works to date. The late show with stephen colbert stephen king is one of my favorite fiction authors.
Heres some background on the mainebased writer and a bibliography, featuring details about some of his most notable works. Enter stephen king, the master of spooks, good storytelling, and, yes, often really long books. The flourishing stephen king renaissance were currently in the midst of shows little sign of slowing down as this weeks longawaited remake of pet sematary makes clear. September 21, 1947 is the bestselling american author of 50 horror, suspsense, and science fictionfantasy novels. The stand is a postapocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by american author stephen king and first published in 1978 by doubleday. He also happens to be one of my favorite storytellers, an author i.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. I havent read much stephen king and what i have read is great but not so scary. Whatever it is, theres no denying that stephen king knows what scares usand hes not afraid to deliver. Born on september 21, 1947, in portland, maine, stephen edwin king is an american author who has been described as the king of horror. Bag of bones is a 1998 horror novel by american writer stephen king. Part one of a terrifying comingofage tale about life, death, suicide and the supernatural. King has published 63 novels, including seven under. The movies tone is set in the opening scene, in which a man. Written in the late 1990s, desperation is horrific from start to finish. King s latest, under the dome, is his third longest novel ever. Aug 28, 2015 in this way, kings books transcend genre and appeal to all lovers of the written word. It focuses on an author who suffers severe writers block and delusions at an isolated lake house four years after the death of his wife.
A list of stephen king s audiobooks, organized alphabetically. The few survivors, united in groups, establish a new social system and engage in confrontation with each other. Stephen king books in order of length a novel best seller. The horror in his bachman persona is different from his regular work, which flirts with camp and frequently goes to bed with gore, but its still very much horror. A memoir of the craft 2000, as well as scattered throughout king s danse macabre 1981. Mar 16, 2019 this wiki has been updated 23 times since it was first published in march of 2015. He has also written nearly two hundred short stories and published a series of comics called the gunslinger born, based on his the dark tower series. Best of stephen king im a huuuge stephen king fan but because his collection is so extensive i havent been able to read all of his works. Jul 18, 2019 whatever it is, theres no denying that stephen king knows what scares usand hes not afraid to deliver. Sep 19, 2017 so, we take a look at the 10 best stephen king movies to ever arrive at the cinema. A list of stephen king s novels, organized alphabetically. This wiki has been updated 23 times since it was first published in march of 2015. As long as there have been stephen king books, there have been stephen king adaptations, and its likely there will continue to be long after the legendary author himself is no longer among the living.
And if you buy one of his books today, you get the present. And with this summers followup to 2017s it just a few months away. Every stephen king miniseries, ranked worst to best. A definitive ranking of every stephen king novel ever. Stephen king word count 112263 274,672 bag of bones 203,3 black house 252,270 blockade billy 15,917 carrie 60,718 cell 121,931 christine 193,602 cujo 121,150 cycle of the werewolf 15,955 desperation 195,011 doctor sleep.
A definitive ranking of every stephen king short story. If you finish the book, watch the movie and decide for yourself which ones betterfair warning, its a tough call. The wind through the keyhole 2012 could also be read between books four and five as is chronologically correct amazon novellas short stories collections by stephen king. The ultimate stephen king reading guide from a constant reader.
Stephen king and all pseudonyms your guide to fiction books. The best stephen king movies, ranked from worst to best. I guess im just curious about everyones favorite books that hes written and to see which ones i should try and in the upcoming months. All of the best stephen king books, ranked reedsy discovery. A ranking of the greatest novels, short stories, movies, and other creations of the worlds most popular writer. After the success of carrie, king upped the ante with his second book. Stephen king who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one new york times bestsellers, and many unforgettable moviesdelivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since everythings eventual six years ago. Mercedes an edgar award winner for best novel, and shortlisted for the cwa gold dagger award. There are three ways up to castle view from the town of ca. His recent work includes sleeping beauties cowritten with his son owen king, the short story collection the bazaar of bad dreams, the bill hodges trilogy end of watch, finders keepers, and mr. The list of books and their page counts was supplied by king s office and refers to the american hardcover editions.
List of books by stephen king simple english wikipedia, the. Theres no doubt that the mans publishing career is impressive, but king was perhaps most prolific with his short stories. So if you are a fellow fan of stephen king novels, or are brand new to discovering. Stephen king books, ranked from worst to best looking back over more than 40 years worth of the writers work. Though its considered one of the best horror films all time, stephen king has been famously outspoken about hating the adaptation of his novel. King has a knack for writing stories that connect with people on an extremely personal.
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